Cultivation begins with the Druid panel

The old man at the Peacock Restaurant was shocked and quickly ended his deduction, cursing Shen Luo and Lu Lin in his heart:

"Those two brats! They took my spirit stones and then ripped me off like this! If I catch them, I'll grind them to dust!"

The main reason was that Shen Luo and Lu Lin also demanded one hundred low-grade spirit stones from him, plus a fragment of a secret technique.

Now that the Hammer Mountain Sect Master has come knocking on our door, things are going to get complicated.

……

Around noon, Lu Lin and Shen Luo finally woke up from their nap in the cracks between the city wall bricks. Two plump sparrows flew out from the cracks and landed on the city wall, yawning.

They looked towards Peacock City and saw the shadows of Hammer Mountain Sect disciples on streets large and small throughout the city.

It seems that Hammer Mountain Gate's investigation yielded no results, and in the end, they could only resort to this most rudimentary method of checking each case one by one.

"I wonder if Hammer Mountain Sect found the wooden plaque we left there, or if they discovered that it was the work of Peacock Restaurant," Shen Luo said curiously, stretching.

Upon hearing this, Lu Lin recalled how the two of them had left the wooden plaque the old man had given them at the Hammer Mountain Gate the previous night: "Why don't we go take a look?"

The two hit it off immediately, cast a wind-riding spell, and flapped their wings to fly towards the tallest building in Peacock City—the Peacock Restaurant.

The roof of the Peacock Restaurant is a square roof, and two little sparrows can land on the gaps between the tiles and look down to see everything happening around the Peacock Restaurant.

The Hammer Mountain Sect members had completely surrounded the Peacock Restaurant, and the voice of the short old man from yesterday could still be heard inside.

"It wasn't me, it really wasn't me. I'm an old man, why would I do something like theft?"

"Besides, not to be rude, but your Hammer Mountain Sect is notoriously poor, while our Peacock Restaurant is the most famously wealthy in Peacock City. Why would we care about your paltry sums?"

The short old man was initially worried that Hammer Mountain Sect would discover that his disciples had been drugged, so he didn't dare to stand up for himself. However, after an hour of friendly communication, he found that Hammer Mountain Sect seemed to have only discovered the theft last night and hadn't even mentioned the drug.

He immediately retorted.

"Then tell me, who stole from my Hammer Mountain Sect and left behind your wooden plaque!" The Hammer Mountain Sect Master snorted. "If you don't give me an explanation, my Hammer Mountain Sect will smash your Peacock Restaurant!"

That short old man was indeed unethical, completely betraying Lu Lin and Shen Luo:

"They were the two guys who killed Song Changning and Zhao Yang yesterday."

"Knowing they had offended Wangyue Pavilion and your Hammer Mountain Sect, they came to me seeking a way out. I took pity on them and gave them my token."

The Hammer Mountain Sect Master looked incredulous.

Which cultivator in this world isn't pitiful?

In the past, this old geezer never seemed to pity anyone.

"Sect Master, those two didn't come out of the Hovering Tavern last night, and they're still in their private rooms. I've been watching them all night," a disciple from Hammer Mountain Sect immediately stepped forward and said to the sect master.

When Lu Lin and Shen Luo saw the person who made the report while standing on the Peacock Restaurant, their eyes momentarily dazed.

Shen Luo said, "Isn't this the bare-shouldered man who tried to spy on us last night?"

"Impossible!" the short old man shouted, a look of disbelief flashing across his face.

"If you don't believe me, come with me and see for yourself!" The Hammer Mountain Sect disciple, who also had a fiery temper, immediately pointed to the hovering tavern not far away.

The atmosphere froze, and the Hammer Mountain Sect Master and the short old man finally decided to go to the Hovering Tavern to take a look.

It was both to find an answer and to find the real culprit behind this matter.

When the group arrived at the Hovering Tavern and saw the empty private room, the Hammer Mountain Sect Master's face turned ashen, as if he had swallowed a dead fly.

The Hammer Mountain Sect disciple who had been so adamant about having someone in the private room also deflated.

The short old man chuckled: "I told you, the theft at your Hammer Mountain Gate must have been done by these two lads. If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do."

After this incident, the Hammer Mountain Sect Master lost his temper and stayed at the Peacock Restaurant. He left with a deep shout.

On the rooftop of the Peacock Restaurant, Lu Lin and Shen Luo couldn't help but whisper among themselves:

"That old geezer is now shifting all the blame onto us. Wasn't it him who sent us to drug Hammer Mountain Sect and Moon Gazing Pavilion?"

Shen Luo looked very displeased.

If I weren't too weak, I really would have liked to beat that sleazy old man up.

"It's alright, it's alright. Just consider us as taking the blame for the money. One hundred spirit stones, plus the private assets of the Hammer Mountain Sect and Moon Gazing Pavilion disciples, that's quite a profit." Lu Lin chuckled.

"Besides, if we could, we could also steal the Peacock Restaurant. That would be another large sum of spirit stones, and we could say we've made our first pot of gold."

Shen Luo felt somewhat better after hearing Lu Lin say that.

Downstairs from the restaurant.

The leader of Hammer Mountain Sect intended to have Peacock Restaurant pay for their meal, but when that failed, he could only vent his anger on his subordinates.

He gathered a team to search the entire city for Lu Lin and Shen Luo, demanding that no clue be overlooked.

But how could the Hammer Mountain Sect Master know that Lu Lin and Shen Luo were currently disguised as sparrows, looking down at them from above?

This has happened repeatedly.

The entire Peacock City was thrown into complete chaos.

……

In a corner of Peacock City, a man crouching by the wall with his hands tucked in his pocket had witnessed everything that had happened in Peacock City over the past two days:

"I knew I wasn't wrong at first; these two kids are indeed two new street thugs."

"In just two days, he's turned Peacock City into this mess. He's got talent; he's truly mastered the teachings of Tianhang Mountain!"

He muttered something beneath his black robe, but his tone was full of pride and praise.

Spiritual practice, you say?

If you can't even cause trouble, what kind of cultivation is that?

However, at that moment, a curse suddenly rang in the ears of the senior disciple, who was draped in black robes:

"You! Stand up! What were you muttering about while you were squatting there?"

"?" The senior brother was taken aback, his eyes narrowed beneath his black robe, revealing a murderous intent.

However, before this murderous intent could even get close to the disciples of Hammer Mountain Sect, it suddenly lost its momentum.

"Tsk..."

No chance today.

"Take off your black robes!" the Hammer Mountain Sect disciple shouted.

The eldest brother sighed inwardly, but had no choice but to do as he was told.

After removing his black robe, a handsome man appeared before everyone.

The eldest brother was a sword cultivator, and his appearance was already quite good. In a small place like Peacock City, he naturally stood out and seemed out of place for a moment.

"Hey, he's a painted-face guy." The man from Hammer Mountain Sect had never seen such a handsome man before, and immediately called out to his companions behind him:

"This person is suspicious; take them back for further investigation."

The eldest disciple was taken aback: "Being good-looking is suspicious?"

But the disciples of Hammer Mountain Sect ignored them completely and still gave orders to their men to escort their senior brother away.

Before the senior disciple had gone far, the Hammer Mountain Sect disciple was about to step forward to question the others.

But as soon as he took a step, he stepped on an oval pebble. His foot slid, his center of gravity shifted, and coincidentally, there was a regularly shaped rhomboid pebble right behind him.

"Pfft!"

A pebble embedded itself in the back of his head, and blood and brain matter seeped into the soil through the cracks in the brick road.

A man who was alive and well just moments ago has fallen to his death.

A body cultivator at the first level of Qi Refining actually died from a fall!

The man's henchmen stared wide-eyed, frozen in place, as if they had seen a ghost.

Upon seeing this, the eldest brother decisively turned and ran.

The disciples of Hammer Mountain Sect had no time to pay attention to him and began to rescue the fallen man.